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A 16-year-old girl was shot in the leg in the Kenwood neighborhood on the South Side this afternoon and investigators are seeking a black sport-utility vehicle that was seen fleeing the scene. At 4:05 p.m. police were called to the 4800 block of South Drexel Boulevard because a 16-year-old girl had been shot in the left thigh, according to a Prairie District police lieutenant. Investigators determined that someone inside a black SUV fired the shots that hit the teen, who was standing with other people in front of a building at the Drexel address.

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy took to the road Monday night to sell Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to close police stations. At a packed community meeting in Kenwood, McCarthy said the decision to shutter stations and "right-size" police districts was based on each area's geographic size, reported crime and staffing. Closing a station would put about 20 more officers on the street, he said. "I know everybody loves having a building," McCarthy said. "It's not the building that matters.

Residents are up in arms about a spurt of violence in the Kenwood and Hyde Park communities, not far from where Secret Service agents keep President Barack Obama's stately residence tightly guarded with concrete barriers. Nearly 150 people packed a recent Chicago Police Board meeting to hear a response to the violence, which includes four slayings in a little more than three months — all within about a mile of the president's home on a block of million-dollar brick mansions. "I'm not going to let my daughters grow up and become immune to the sound of gunshots," Ghian Foreman, himself a Kenwood resident and a member of the Police Board, said at the meeting as his voice cracked with emotion and he fought back tears.

Horrified neighbors, pressed against the crime-scene tape on the 1100 block of East 47th Street on Saturday, gathered near the body of Tony McCoy — his lean 7-foot-frame lying just yards from his Kenwood neighborhood home after being shot in broad daylight. Murmuring his name in disbelief, several in the crowd of dozens mourned the loss of the son of a popular mentor for kids who played in Chicago Park District basketball and football games. McCoy, 20, was shot just after 1 p.m. Saturday in a burst of gunfire that startled the South Side neighborhood within walking distance of Barack and Michelle Obama's Chicago home.

Horrified neighbors, pressed against the police crime tape on the 1100 block of East 47th Street today, gathered near the body of Tony McCoy - his lean 7-foot-frame lying just yards from his Kenwood neighborhood home after being shot in broad daylight. Murmuring his name in disbelief, several in the crowd of dozens mourned the loss of the son of a popular mentor for local kids who played frequently in Chicago Park District basketball and football games. McCoy, 20, was shot just after 1 p.m. Saturday in a burst of gunfire that startled the usually quiet, close-knit South Side neighborhood that sits within walking distance of Barack and Michelle Obama's Chicago home.

The neighborhoods that gave the nation its first black president are supplying another set of Democratic political leaders whose growing influence can be felt from City Hall to the County Building to the state Capitol. The new crew continues the liberal tradition of Hyde Park and Kenwood, but these politicians also break with the past by putting pragmatism ahead of progressivism to wield power. Toni Preckwinkle traded up last fall from veteran 4th Ward alderman to Cook County Board president.

There was a time this spring when Joliet Catholic was desperate for a victory. After curing whatever ailed them, the Hilltoppers are on another run through the Class 3A playoffs. The Hilltoppers' latest victim was Kenwood, which fell 17-1 in five innings at the Class 3A Crestwood Supersectional at Illinois-Chicago. Defending champion Joliet Catholic is headed to Joliet's Silver Cross Field for the third consecutive year. The Hilltoppers will play Chatham Glenwood at 10 a.m. Friday in a rematch of last season's title game.

President Barack Obama continued his low-key visit to Chicago Sunday with a morning workout and an evening visit to a neighbor's home. Though there had been speculation that the president and his family would take in a Blackhawks game, attend a play or visit their favorite restaurants over the holiday weekend, they have remained close to their Kenwood home for much of the trip. On Sunday morning, the president marked his fourth day in the city by going to a Near West Side gym to work out. Reporters were not told the name of the facility, but the building Obama entered houses Naturally Fit, a fitness studio owned by Cornell McClellan, a celebrity trainer who has worked with the president and the first lady.

Jack Meltzer played a role in shaping Hyde Park as an urban planner who crafted blueprints for the demolition and rebuilding of large swaths of the South Side Chicago neighborhood during the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. Meltzer, 88, died of complications from emphysema Wednesday, May 5, at an assisted living facility in Washington, D.C., said his son Marc. He lived most recently in Chevy Chase, Md. After getting his master's degree in public administration with an emphasis on planning from the University of Chicago, Mr. Meltzer in 1954 became director of planning for the South East Chicago Commission, an arm of the university.